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Several members of the news department staff in its early years started at WBRC radio including news anchors Harry Mabry and Joe Langston (the latter of whom would also take on a management role as its director of news and editorial policy in 1969), and sports anchor Tom York. In 1969, former WSGN radio anchor Bill Bolen joined WBRC to replace ...
Martinez began her broadcasting career as a video editor at WBRC-TV in Birmingham, Alabama, where she worked from 1997 until 2003. In 2000, she co-hosted a morning radio show on WOXR-FM in Oxford, Alabama. [1] In 2003, Martinez became a photographer, general assignment reporter and fill-in anchor at WDSI-TV in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
WBRC began airing the second hour of GMA in the early 1980s and only began airing the entire show in 1989 after York retired. After retiring from broadcast television, York was a weekly columnist for his hometown newspaper, The Hoover Gazette, from 2006 until shortly before the newspaper's demise in 2007. York won a regional Emmy Award in 1995.
The Texans' flagship radio stations are KILT SportsRadio 610AM and KILT 100.3FM. The AM station has an all-sports format, while the FM station plays contemporary country music. Both are owned by CBS Radio. Marc Vandermeer is the play-by-play announcer.
After a report on the city's homeless population, Houston Mayor, Bill White, declared June 23, 2009, "Isiah Carey Day" in Houston. [ 5 ] While an investigative reporter at WHBQ-TV in Memphis, Tennessee , Carey was the winner of two awards by the Society of Professional Journalists in 2000.
Mabry returned to Birmingham in 1958 as news editor and established editorial policy at WBRC-TV, channel 6, where he also worked as an on-air anchor. [2] He remained in Birmingham with WBRC throughout the 1960s, where some of his most important reporting was on the civil rights movement.
Before moving up to the booth, Ford hosted the Astros' pregame and postgame radio shows. He performed the same role with the Kansas City Royals before coming to Houston. . His other baseball play-by-play experiences came from the Binghamton Mets, Yakima Bears, and the Kalamazoo Ki
In 1989, she signed on with KPRC-TV in Houston as a weekend anchor, and was soon promoted to anchoring the weekday 6 and 10 pm newscasts, a position she held for 14 years. In the last two and a half years of her employment at KPRC, Linda moved to anchoring the 5 and 6 pm newscasts, as well as the mid-day and 4 pm shows.